Customer Success Manager
TesJob Title: Customer Success Manager
Location: Sheffield
Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office
Contract Type: Full time, permanent
At Tes we are on a mission to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by delivering EdTech solutions that give educators the tools to succeed. From safeguarding and compliance to staff and pupil management, our innovative and flexible software and services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.
With more than 13 million educators in our community, combined with our working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries, we have been making a difference for over 100 years
Role overview
This is a dual-impact role requiring a blend of commercial strategy and product advocacy. You are responsible for the health, retention, and supporting the growth of a portfolio of customers. Unlike an Associate, you don’t just flag issues; you own the end-to-end resolution and revenue outcome.
You will act as the senior escalation point for support-related hurdles, ensuring that product success paves the way for commercial expansion. Your goal is to maximise Net Revenue Retention (NRR) by delivering a frictionless customer experience where "it just works" and "it adds value."
Key Responsibilities
1) Product Advocacy & Support Leadership
Senior Escalation Point: Act as the "Internal Voice of the Customer," bridging the gap between Support/Product and the client to unblock complex technical, product or operational hurdles.
Health Diagnostics: Beyond tracking usage, you will perform and/.or coordinate deep-dive "Account Health Audits," identifying systemic support trends or friction points that could threaten the renewal.
Value Architecting: Work with customers to review workflows, processes and integrations, ensuring our product is deeply embedded in the daily lives of their users, whilst creating opportunities for cross & upsell across the wider Tes eco-system
Proactive Support Strategy: Lead "Support-to-Success" handovers, ensuring that any support ticket trends are addressed through training or product education before they become churn risks.
2) Commercial Success & Revenue Growth
Full Lifecycle Ownership: Own or partner with sales (Key Strategic Accounts only) the commercial negotiation for renewals, moving from administrative tracking to closing high-value contracts.
Expansion Strategy: Identify, qualify, and close or partner with sales (Key Strategic Accounts only) expansion revenue (upsells/cross-sells). You are expected to grow the "Wallet Share" of your portfolio year-on-year.
Strategic Business Reviews (SBRs): Lead or partner with sales (Key Strategic Accounts only) high-stakes meetings with senior stakeholders to demonstrate ROI, linking technical stability to business outcomes.
Pipeline Accuracy: Maintain a rigorous, data-backed renewal and expansion forecast within Salesforce.
3) Service Excellence
Process Optimisation: Partner with customer service leaders to continually refine the onboarding and support-handover playbooks to reduce "Time-to-First-Value" and minimize support overhead.
Risk Management: Architect "Success Recovery Plans" for accounts with low adoption or high support-ticket volume.
What will you need to succeed?
Revenue & Growth Ownership
Owns a portfolio of accounts with specific Net Revenue Retention (NRR) targets. Independently manages the full renewal lifecycle and builds a qualified expansion pipeline in partnership with Sales Leads through multi-stakeholder discovery.
Value & Outcome Management
Conducts Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that focus on ROI, not just usage. Bridges the gap between "what the product does" and "why it matters" for the customer's bottom line. Expert at identifying the root cause of customer dissatisfaction and mobilizing internal teams (Product, Engineering, Support) to solve it.
Relationship Management & Influence
Navigates organisational silos to connect with senior leaders, influencers & key users. Proficient in change management, helping customers internalize the product into their daily workflows. Confident in presenting ‘value realisation’ reports to C-Suite stakeholders and buyers and demonstrating ability to pivot from a contract negotiation to a technical troubleshooting session without losing credibility.
Data Driven Decision Making
Analyses behavioural patterns to predict churn months before a renewal date. Uses predictive health scores to prioritize account interventions that yield the highest commercial return.
What do you get in return?
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30
- 5% pension
- State of the art offices
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Quarterly Tes Socials
- Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu
Who are Tes?
Tes is a global Edtech leader, on a mission to empower schools and educators to deliver impactful, inspiring learning experiences worldwide.
Our intuitive technology streamlines complex tasks, enhances learning experiences, and alleviates the administrative burdens that often overwhelm schools.
By working closely with schools, we provide up-to-date resources, expert guidance, and a technology ecosystem dedicated to innovation and excellence in education.
For more information about Tes, visit: www.tes.com